College towns all over North Carolina took on some of the hustle and excitement that they usually exude from September to June when wide-eyed freshmen and cocksure upperclassmen completed their exodus back
to the campus. The above scenes, taken from two of the State’s largest schools, were typical of those- duplicated throughout the nation last week! In fii'st photo at left, freshmen co-eds of A. and T. College at Greens
boro find the juke box at the college canteen just the thing to pass away lighter moments during a break in orientation procedures. Co-eds'shown are, left to right, Nancy Davis, Winston-Salem; Joan Saunders,
Clinton, South Carolina; Cordelia Hairston, Winston-Salem; and Claudia Mean, Whitmire, South Carolina. In the second photo from left, Madeline Simpson, freshman at A. and T., gets help in filling out one of the
myriad of forms which orientation brings. Giving assistance are upperclassmen Esther Hart (left). Rocky Mount, and Colleen McCullough (right) of Greensboro. Photo at right shows the two seU of twins \diich
turned up among North Carolina College’s 550 freshmen last week. The twins are shown talking with Dr. Alfonso Elder, President of the Durham institution. They are, left to right, Stella and Ella Robinson of Wilson
and Helen and Evelyn Oapp of Scotland Neck.
Crackdown On
Area Moonshiners
Federal Judge Gives Stiff Fines, Terms To Eight
As He Declares Intention Of Breaking Up Traffic
DURHAM
A severe crack down on
moonshining in these parts
appeared in the offing this
week as a Federal Court
judge imposed stiff fines and
jail sentences—^in two cases
both—on eight persons con
victed of trafficking in rion-
taxpaid liquor.
A total of eight persons,
two of them white men, were
handed fines of $100-$350 and
jail terms of from 12 to six
months by Judge Johnson J.
Hayes of the Middle District
Court as the court convened
jn Durham Tuesday.
^MeanwTiileV in Wilson County
two men were nabbed by -ABC
officers as they operated their
home made stiU in a wooded uea
near the county line. S'
Judge Hayes, In pronouncing
sentences on the defendants in
Durham, served notice that his
court Intended to “put an end”
to whiskey inakinK and boot-
legg:ing' In the middle district,
area. In between cases, he
heaped praise on law enforce
ment officers who were re
sponsible for bringing the de
fendants to trial.
“Why can’t people see they
haven’t a chance to make whis
key around here,” the Judge re-
iHafRedTs he lectured the de-
w
fendants before imposing the
sentences.
“They’ll get caught every
time,” he waraed, “what with
the combined operations of
Federal officers, ABC of
ficers and local police. It’s
stupid ^ try to make whiskey
aronnd here,” he declared.
Those receiving sentences on
whiskey charges were:
John Hubert Parker, charged
with possession of distillery,
mash and whiskey, one year
and a day in prison;
Perry W. Fogle, charged with
removing and concealing non-
taxpaid whiskey, $300 fine plus
six months in prison, prison
term suspended for two years
probation;
Hovon Marsh, charged with
removing and concealing non-
taxpaid whiskey, year and a
day in prison, sentence sus
pended for two years proba
tion;
Percy Degraffenreidt, charged
with removing and concealing
non-taxpaid whiskey, $300 fine,
plus a year t)nd a day prison;
Cries Alston, charged with
removing and concealing non-
taxpaid whiskey, $350 fine,
plus a year and a day in pris
on, term suspended on two
year probation;
William Brown, charged with
removing aitd concealing non-
taxpaid whiskey, nlir.pros.
A SO gallon steel ^ram type
still and 300 gallon* of mash
were discovered at a home
made still in Great Swamp
Township in Wayne County
near the Wilson County line as
Wilson County ABC Officers
nabbed twb men operating the
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Mrs. Emma Bell Stone, who, according to all available records,
is around 101 years old, lays claim to being one of Durham’s oldest
residents. The centenarian can be seen on any fair day sitting on
the swing on the porch at the residence of Mrs. Ella Monroe, sew
ing or making quflt matchwork. Mrs. Stone, who has been married
three times, was bom in Chapel Hill sometime in the late lS40’s
or early ’50’». She tpld a TIMES reporter this week that she re
members very vividly when the Yankees came throug|i. “Wheeler’s
Cavalry came through on « Saturday ... I was Just big enough to
t«t« a tin bucket Qf water fr«m a pump . . . Julius Carr’s folks
raised me in Chapel Hill. . .Mjr follw were free men ... a brother,
Elijah, fought In Oie war (jOfvll War, she doesn’t remember on
which side). Mother died in Kinston ... I’s small then.”
Aunt ’Em, as she is called by Hlekstown residents, has been
living in Durham for more years than she can remember and has
been staying with Mrs. Monroe for about 40 yeart. She said her
first husband’s name was King Osier. She doesn’t remember the
name of the second one, bnt says her last husband, Joe Stone, was
a Baptist preacher. .
Her p^ents were Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bell of Chapel Hill
and she was a member of a big family, though she can’t remember
needle by herself. The authority for her age is
ter, Mrs. StelU Poole, who also UTes In Hicuto'
:e is her sister’s daiigh-
iwn.
KKK Type
Activities Said
Pranksters' Job
CONCORD
Crosses were burned in
Mecklenburg County near
Concord during the week-end
but law officers attributed the
Ku Klux Klan type activities
to pranksters.
Several crude crosses were
burned at various places In
Concord during the past week
end but Police Chief A. M.
Murr ruled out any possibility
of bona fide Klan activity in
Ctncord, attributing the burn
ings to pranksters.
“We are positive the whole
thing resulted from some
body’s Idea of a Joke, but
those who partielpated prob
ably don’t know that they are
liable to Indictment and sen
tence for such actions,” Murr
said.
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME 30—NUMBER 36
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCT. 3rd, 1953 PRICE 10 CffiJTS
Cigarette Firm
Names Race Man
Wylie H. Whisonant, Jr., has
iust been appointed to represent
he American Tobacco Company
on the staff of the Student Mar
keting Institute, retained by the
Company to handle its campaign
among leading colleges througn-
out the country.
A graduate of Lincoln Univer
sity, Whlson^t will coordinate
all phases of the college program
for the company. He will make
regular visits to each campus
each year to confer with student
representatives and faculty sup
ervisors. '
Trio Of Whites
Face Trial For
Slaying Negro
DOBSON
Tliree white men were sched
uled to be brought to trial in
Surry County Superior Court
here this week for the murder
of a 63-year-old Negro.
The defendants, Lex Moore-
fleld, Robert Hall and Orville
Hill, are charged with the
murder of Sam Brim, a farm
er of Westfield, Route One.
*Brim was found by R. E.
Cook in his barn suffering
irom a loss of blood and taken
to a Winston-Salem Hospital
where he died on the same
same night.
State Highway Patrolman
Tony Gwaltney found Brim’s
automobile wrecked on the
border of Surry and Stokes
Counties. His investigations
showed that Brim’s tliroat was
cut and Moorefieli^ Hall and
Hill were arrested*-.
It was surmised that Brim
staggered from his wrecked
car into the bam where he
was found by Cook. Reports
gave no explanation as to how
Brim's car was wrecked or the
connection between the slay
ing made with the tlu-ee white
men.
Voters Go To
Polls Saturday
T1ME» jtEPORTS .
North Carolina’s voters will
go to the polls Saturday to (fe^
cide whether or not to put the
State into 72 million dollars
debt for its schools and men
tal institutions.
The bond issue referendum,
calling for 50 million for
schools and 22 million for
mental institutions, was pass
ed by the statelegislature in
its session last %ring and lef;^
the date for the Wection up to
Governor Willi^ B. Um-^
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Bond Issue OK
Is Expected
HIGH POINT
A 32-year-old High Point
woman must face a charge
of murder in connection
with the fatal shooting of
her 14-year-old neighbor
who she claimed was a
“Peeping Tom.”
Mrs. Desoline Wheeler Wood
is being held in jail here'with-
out bond after Henry Mack,
young resident of 503 Spring
St., died of a bullet wound
in his head at a Winston-Sa
lem Hospital Tuesday morn
ing. Thfe shooting took place
last Saturday night.
Mrs. Wood admitted firing a
.32 calibre bullet through the
shade and window at her home
Saturday night. She said the
youth was peeping into her
home.
Toung Mack was found by
police about ten o’clock Sat
urday night lying in an alley
soon after the shooting in
cident at Mrs. Wood’s house
at 421 Spring Street.
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Middle-Aged
Pair Sentenced
For Love Trysts
Special To The TIMES
GOLDSBORO
An interracial love tryst
resulted in jail terms for a
pair of middle-aged parti
cipants here this week.
A 40-year-pld white wo
man and a 56-year-old Ne
gro man were both given
jail sentences in a Wayne
County Court here last
Thursday on charges of
adultery.
A white man was also
fined on charges of adult
ery with the woman.
Mrs. Frank Grady, resident of
Hines Cross Roads, was handed
3 30 months jail sentence by
Judge Charles P. Gayior after
being found guilty of adultery
on two charges.
Her Negro piramoar. Jim
Lane, was given a six mon'Fs
sentence for his part in the
love affair.
Both bave served notice of
appeals from the sentences and
the woman was ohiered held un
der $500 bond on each charge
for the Wayne County Superior
Court term.
In testimony before Judge
Gayior, three teen-aged boys
stated tliat they saw Mrs.
Grady and Lane have relations
at the woman’s home last
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31tlominated In TIMES Holy
Land Subscription Contest
At the time of going to press this week, Wednes
day, September 30 at 6:00 p. m., a total of 31 persons
had been nominated in the CAROLINA TIMES "Ev
erybody Wins” Subscription Contest that gets under
way October 5. All contestants will be mailed receipt
books and other material needed for soliciting sub
scriptions in the campaign, Friday, October 2.
This week Harry W. Sigmund and Grahame
Smallwood, representatives of Trans World Airlines,
were in Durham to confer with CAROLINA TIMES
officials and complete details of the trips that will
take the persons securing the first two highest num
ber of votes to the Holy Land and the third to Paris.
When the contest gets under way, Monday, Oct
ober 5 the contestants will have six weeks in which to
solicit subscriptions. The six weeks will be divided
into three periods of two weeks each with subscrip
tions secured during the contest counting as follows:
No.
1st Period
I 2nd Period
3rd Period
Years
Sub. Price
OCT. 5-17
OCT. 19-31
NOV. 2-14
1
$ 3.00
5,000
4,000
3,000
2
6.00
12,000
10,000
8,000
3
9.00
17,000
15,000
10,000
4
12.00
22,000
20,000
15,000
5
15.00
^,000
25,000
20,000
The campaigfrwill close myaight November 14.
Following the close th« auditing coinmittee will can-
Three brothers of Durham, the Mangum brothers, arc serving
in two branches of this country’s Armed forces. Sons of Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Mangum, Sr. of I4*S Glenn Street, they are, pictnred
above left to right, Pfc. Elmo Mangum, Seaman Billy Lee Maiunni
and Pfc. Carl Edward Mangum. Elmo, a former Hillside
has completed two years of Army enlistment and is schednl^
return to the U. S. A. soon. He is now sUtioned with the SSr«
Medical Holding Company in France. BUly, a gradwit* of HiU-
side in 1951, has seen 27 months service in the Navy and is w-
renUy serving alioard toe heavy cruiser USS Bockester. _
Rochester was nsed extensively off the Korean shores dmrug im
fighting. BUly has 21 more months to serve. Carl, also » foraaor
Hillside student, has nearly finished a three year hl^ In toe Anay.
Now serving with the SSlst F. A. Battalion at Han^urg, Genu^
Carl plMOM to work for an Officer’s Commission. Bo asiado s
record at toe non-eoinmlsslonod officers’ academy.
vass the votes and declare the winners, whoae
and actual standings, together with th*l of all coa-
tesUnto, will be published in the November 17 i«MM
of the CAROUNA TIMES.
Each wed( during the contest die relAttve stelMi*
ing of each contestant will be published.